Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Solitude is independence.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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